Best 1022 quotes in «shadow quotes» category

The Republican Congress is like a groundhog afraid of its shadow when a government shutdown is talked about.

The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves

There was a man that hated his footprints and his shadow, so one day he thought that if he ran fast enough, his footprints and shadow would not be able to follow him and then he never ever had to look at them again. He ran and he ran as fast as he could, but the shadow and the footprints had no problems keeping up to him. And he ran even faster and all of a sudden he fell dead to the ground. But if he been standing still there hadn't been any footprints and if he had been resting under a tree his shadow had been swallowed of the trees shadow.

There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.

There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.

The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.

The shadow proves the sunshine.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.

The shadows didn't seem as dark as usual. Not with my personal sun along.

The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.

The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]

The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets.

The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.

The shadows of twilight grow, And the tiger’s ancient fierceness In my veins begins to flow.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.

The Stormlight rising from his exposed skin was enough to illuminate the chasm, and it cast shadows on the walls as he ran. Those seemed to become figures, crafted by the bones and branches stretching from the heaps on the ground. Bodies and souls. His movement made the shadows twist, as if turning to regard him.

The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.

The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts.

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we can see the entire circumference even though part of it is in complete shadow and part of it is in earthshine. It's a view worth the price of the trip.

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and ethical. Environmentalism, in short, had become one version of nature religion in the lingering shadow of American transcendentalism.

The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will be no more than a shadow or an echo behind some poem. Other times it will be more manifest. I try to write myself into articulations of half-felt, half-known feelings, without program. I'm always working toward getting my world and, hopefully, the world outside of me into a version that makes sense of it. Viciousness requires the same precision as love does.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.